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What to recycle in Plymouth

Plymouth City Council operate a fortnightly collection of recyclable material. Householders are usually given a 240 litre wheeled bin. However, if they don’t have the room to store, or put out a bin for collection, they are given a re-useable plastic bag.

Recyclable materials collected are:

Paper (newspapers, magazines, yellow pages, catalogues, telephone directories and junk mail)
Cardboard
Plastics (bottles, yoghurt pots and margarine containers)
Food and drinks cans (please rinse out, no need to remove paper labels)
Aerosols (please remove plastic lids)
Foil (please rinse out)

Recycling collection

Please put your recycling container on the boundary of your property by 6.30am, on the day of your collection (but not before 6.30pm the night before). The items should be loose and not in plastic bags.

Find out what day your collection will be on

Items that Plymouth don't take in the recycling collection, include:

Glass
Tetra paks (some juice cartons)
Shredded paper
Crisp packets
Sweet wrappers
Pyrex glass
Clothes and shoes
Nappies
Plastic bags

Glass bottles and jars, clothes and shoes can all be recycled at Plymouth's recycling banks, around the city.

To find out the location of recycling facilities in Plymouth, please use the left hand menu.

If you have missed your refuse/recycling collection, please contact Plymouth City Council on 01752 668000 or email recycling@plymouth.gov.uk

For more detailed information regarding refuse and recycling in Plymouth, please click here